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Ducklings All Ditches United
On one of my bike rides, I came across one of my favourite topics: baby ducklings! Squeaky brakes and a firm jump immediately brought me at duck level. Moments like these must be taken advantage of, as...
View ArticleBringing Body Love Into Dance Class: A New Way of Teaching
Stand up straight. Pull your belly button in and up. Your stomach is sticking out. Pull it in. Don't be lazy. Suck it in. Tuck your booty under. Pull up. Chin high. Belly in. Squeeze the tushy....
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The Post Contemporary Paradigm
The word Contemporary, as it is applied to Art is a confusing one. Contemporary Art is defined as Art which owes its foundation to post-modernism, and whose concepts focus primarily on transient issues...
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The Upside of Art School
Peter Saul Brush Your Teeth, 160cm x 150cm acrylic on canvas Art school is an easy and enjoyable target for satire and jokes. Most everyone I know has had some of the kind of experiences that fall...
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Not Every Traditional Art Is Just a Handicraft!
Through my lenses for traditional art, I have been researching how regional art forms have emerged over centuries and how undiscovered talents in remote villages do extraordinary creativity in their...
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Art Elevates
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. -Khalil Gibran My best friend Gigi and I have deep conversations about where we are going as artists. I am an author/illustrator, she a photographer...
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Virtual Resources for Art History and Appreciation Courses
In November of 2012 I posted a blog with a title that posed a question: "Is Smarthistory the Art History Textbook of the Future?." At the time, it seemed to me that Smarthistory, which describes...
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Plastiglomerate: The Rock of the Future Made Into Sculpture
As scary as it is to think of what is going to happen to all the plastic waste that is filtering out into the ocean, one particular use seems to make a lot of sense -- and its also really beautiful. In...
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My Top 5 Inspiring Places in New York City
Anne Pasternak is the president and artistic director of Creative Time and commissions innovative public artwork around the world. These are her favorite places in New York City. New York City is a...
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Painting in the Light of Chania, Crete
For the past four years I have been working on watercolor/gouaches on paper during summer/fall visits to Chania, on the island of Crete where I was born. The light there is vivid, warm and intense,...
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25 Breastfeeding Photos I Want the Whole World to See
My son was only a few days old. Skin soft and pink, his face still puffy, and his eyes often closed in the deepness of sleep. He was perfect, and for days my husband and I simply sat and stared at him,...
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The Great Resurgence of Academic Art
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Two Sisters (restored), 1901, oil on canvas, 44 x 30 inches, Collection of Lawrence University. Though I attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna for nearly six years, I...
View ArticleThe Art of Collecting
It is a much thought about and much discussed subject for we all collect. We collect friends, information, knowledge, experience and sometimes even dreams. This thought is about "collecting art" and...
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The Natural -- 30th Anniversary
In the summer of 1983 I traveled from Manhattan to Buffalo, New York to work as a photographer on a movie starring Robert Redford called The Natural. It was a baseball movie, based on a novel by...
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Asian Persuasians
Western culture isn't always what it's cracked up to be. Comparative studies of Judeo-Christian versus Eastern religions and philosophies reveal much greater depth and breadth in some areas of...
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Project 24: A Portrait Of Millennial Artist Nguyễn Chi
This is the first installment of Project 24, a series that documents the lives and work of millennial artists based in New York City. As a collection, these portraits explore how the latest generation...
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Affairs of the Art: The Reinvention of Detroit
Last week, Reuters reported that a company called Art Capital expressed its willingness to loan the city $4 billion if it uses its artwork as collateral. In fact, the Detroit Institute of Arts'...
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5.5 Tips To Get Better Tennis Photos
To read the article on FroKnowsPhoto.com please click here. While in Florida for a family event my cousin was taking part in a tennis clinic that I decided to photograph. I have always loved tennis, I...
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Art and Landscape in Nordland, Northern Norway
Adelsteen Normann. Adelsteen Normann (1848 -1918) at Galleri Bodøgaard, Bodø. Adelsteen Normann, a painter born in Bodø, depicts the Norwegian landscapes, especially fjords. The gallery owner, Harald...
View ArticleSettling at the Met
The biggest news in the arts world over the past month was the settlement the Metropolitan Opera reached with its many unions. The management of the company had stated that without significant cost...
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